Perusall

Perusall fosters student engagement through collaborative annotation of readings via threaded discussions, enabling students to interact and respond to each other's comments. Comments are automatically graded and can be passed back to Canvas assignments.

Add Perusall to your Canvas Course

Perusall will appear automatically appear as an option on the left navigation menu in Canvas. Click the menu option to launch into your Perusall course.

If you do not see the menu option, add it by navigating in Canvas to Settings > Navigation.
Click the three dots to the right of Perusall, and select Enable.
Then, drag the Perusall option to the list of active navigation options. It may be towards the bottom of the list.

Roster Sync

Each time you launch Perusall from Canvas, a roster sync will run in the background. Any students that have been added to your course will be added to your Perusall course roster (under the Students tab), and any that have unenrolled will be removed from the course.

Group Sync

Access Canvas group sync by navigating to your Perusall course settings, then select Grouping.
Select Specify groups, and then click Import Groups from Canvas. This will trigger a pop-up window allowing you access to your Canvas group sets.
Select one group set to apply to your Perusall course.

Note: If you make any changes to your grouping in Canvas, you will need to import groups from Canvas again to see the updates.

Grade Sync

Automatically sync the average of all Perusall assignments to a single gradebook column in Canvas.

Launch Perusall from Canvas.
Select Settings > Scoring > Grade sync to LMS > Automatically sync students' average scores to LMS.
Click Save changes.

Sync individual assignment scores to multiple columns in the Canvas gradebook.

Launch Perusall from Canvas.
Select Settings > Scoring > Grade sync to LMS > Automatically sync students' scores to LMS
Click Save changes.

(For more information, see Perusall grade sync in LTI 1.3.)